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Dark Thoughts

Time to Look Down (artwork from first Uncivilisation Festival 2010

How do we make sense of the world, as we start to disentangle ourselves from the stories we grew up taking for reality itself?

In this section, you’ll find Dark Mountain contributors thinking about the largest questions and asking what it means to live in times like these.

A Force That Gives Us Meaning

Paul Kingsnorth
31st March, 2010
In this latest piece, Hedges does the same job of asking uncomfortable questions. Though he’s...
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Hope Beyond Hope

Paul Kingsnorth
16th March, 2010
I’m not going to summarise it, because this remarkable film can tell its own story....
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A Period of Mourning

Paul Kingsnorth
14th March, 2010
It has been hard to find anyone who doesn’t like this idea, which is always...
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Romans of the Decadence

Paul Kingsnorth
25th February, 2010
This is one of the biggest paintings in the museum: Romans of the Decadence. Seen...
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What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending?

Dougald Hine
31st January, 2010
He starts by summing up and rebutting a couple of the regular charges which have...
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Defusing the Apocalypse: A response to John Gray

Dougald Hine
20th September, 2009
In a good conversation, you don’t just reiterate the first thing you said: listening and...
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